Managing dental conditions is not a part of most nursing positions and little dental training is provided in nursing school….
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Nursing Practice
Correctional Nurse Practice Update: Using the National Council of State Boards of Nursing Scope of Practice Decision-Making Framework
In our last post, we met LPN Suzanna, who had closed a 3 cm laceration on the forehead of her…
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Correctional Nurse Practice Update: Scope of Practice
LPN Suzanna is on duty at the county jail when Mr. Martin strikes his head on the top bunk metal…
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Botulism and Prison/Jail Brew
The officer working in A pod calls to medical and reports that several individuals are complaining of feeling generally unwell,…
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Correctional Nursing: Is It For You?
Very few nurses decide on a nursing career with the thought “I want to be a jail nurse”
Correctional Nurse Clinical Practice Update: Asthma II:
Nursing Assessment of the Asthma Patient The assessment of a patient with asthma should begin with baseline vital signs, including…
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